Is World of Tanks Dying?

Is World of Tanks Dying? The topic that we are going to be discussing today will be the future of our beloved game, World of Tanks. In this video I will show you Why I think the game is rapidly losing players, we will take a look at the reasons why WoT has been getting a lot more unpopular recently and we also delve into major problems with the game. World of Tanks has been around for almost a decade and half, but is it going to last for more than 2 years? Watch the video and find out! 🔥
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World of Tanks (WoT) is a massively multiplayer online game developed by the company Wargaming, featuring mid-20th century (1930s-1960s) era combat vehicles. It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play, but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of "premium" features. The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle.
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Time stamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:50 - 2024: A Year of Disaster
07:28 - Closure of Forums: Why?
09:26 - WG NA Employee Fired
10:55 - Lack of Non-Monetized Content
12:14 - Destruction of Clan Wars
13:45 - Shocking: Personal Missions
14:25 - Horrible Map Design
15:58 - Worsening Tank and Map Balance
18:19 - Ninja Turtles in WoT?
19:08 - Is there a way back?
20:07 - Outro
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[@kajzoo]

What do you think about all that has been said? Can the game be saved? How? 👀

[@dnpnunes]

When they consider players first before filling the pockets maybe they can save the game

[@lidlevilbender6984]

those maps are really bad I think if WG made a map editor that players can make their own map or modify the ones already in the game players would upload it vote for the best map design and it would be chosen by the community personally I would enjoy making my own map and playing with the editor

[@cometyt4840]

i agree but many cc's believe the game is not as bad as it really is i think people need to wake up

[@AlsoYou]

no

[@thomasmann6434]

wg ignoring playerbase for years, why would they change their mind?

[@YasarAktepe]

I don't feel like playing Wot anymore, I come home from work, I enter the game to relieve stress, but I get more stressed and turn it off... The constant arrival of new events has also turned me off from the game. Because I don't want to spend time on these, but the game forces you to do this...

[@firestar7890]

Literally, games are supposed to RELIEVE frustration. However, WoT is the opposite, when I still played the game there were just too many frustrating aspects (bad teammates, arty stuns, stupid RNG everywhere, bad map design and more) which is why WoT inherently fails as a game in my opinion. I found myself just having less and less fun over time

[@ognjenradosavljevic9519]

Same here, I play it to have fun but I haven't had fun in years now, I can't grind and the developers that treat the game like it's a job, I do not have time to play their stupid time limited events, is rather play something else or watch a movie. The game is super frustrating and not fun at all

[@stefanonbekend8177]

I wanted too play today, but after 3 big loses i just stopped. From the last 50 battles i won 5. Thank you wg. I not play anymore.

[@bozydargroch9779]

How are you forced to do those events lmao. I've played for nearly 10 yrs and I haven't completed single marathon. Same goes for battlepasses, never got all rewards from any of those. If you don't want to do it, just DON'T lol, it's literally that simple

[@thorgrimb2416]

I am only average but my PR was extremely close to 5000 which was OK but in past few years it has dropped to just under 4300 my game play has not changed my skill has not decreased what has changed is players refusing to play, players hiding at the ba k in lights or rushing forward in the open to spot and quickly die in heavies ie almost every single game we get a min of a third of the team without any clue and I blame wargaming they have no proper play through modes for new players, they allow new players to rise up the tech tree far far quicker than you could 8 or 9 years ago. Progression now is their right it is not a reward for improving, for learning how to play. Too mnay new players have invested virtually nothing into earning higher tiers which should have started around tier 5 and should have been essential from tier 7 onwards. The best thing that could happen is they sell the game before it dies and is worthless.

[@patricktourlamain2686]

In Belgium. It's easy for us. Loot boxes are forbidden; It's gambling.

[@villesuutari9528]

Which is great, but also showcases the biggest problem with lootboxes. The new tanks locked behind them. You guys need to wait a long time before having a chance to get a new premium, as they dont seem to be introduced in any other way than lootboxes

[@patricktourlamain2686]

@@villesuutari9528 Indeed; Sometimes its very frustrating for having an game where there are full of premiums. Sometimes I say Shit , I stop this game.

[@bilboriches7216]

Crazy online numbers in WoT dunno what this video is about.

[@usernumber4]

@@bilboriches7216 numbers can be fake, and there are no other resource or tool to check it except the number which WG provides, which looks weird because if on server around 15-20k people and its hard to find low tier battle, where sometimes it registers a battle with 10vs10 or even 4-5 players and rest filled with bots -_-

[@lordhelmchen4645]

makes sense

[@nathanclark4674]

When the forum was eliminated, that was the ultimate warning that WoT no longer gave a damn about players and wanted all of us to know it. They removed the only source of feedback that they could not completely control, although they tried all kinds of censoring. When a company shuts down their customer complaint desk, it's over.

[@soldier22881]

there also another reason why they shut down forums: a lot of the recent posters where exposing the pay to win match maker they had

[@ivayloivanov7231]

Indeed! I notice when i dared to criticize crappy RNG in 2017 on Forums and company trolls jump immediately too flood whit spam reply and i give up on Forums!

[@soldier22881]

@@ivayloivanov7231 and dont forget the censorship! alot of posts exposing wg ended up being deleted. if you dare speak up about the issues with games you are either flamed by the trolls or wg staff give you arbitrary bans for "unconstructive" posts

[@soldier22881]

@@ivayloivanov7231 wg employs and hires forums trolls/staff to patrol forums and flame anyone who points out issues with game or mm thats why they shut down forums they didnt need to pay the forum trolls anymore

[@ivayloivanov7231]

@@soldier22881 Fun fact: Blizzard Forums are the same crap.....

[@luizaugustorebolimartins1244]

I'm a World of Tanks player on the SA server (South America), more specifically from Brazil, and I'll tell you one thing about the SA server; It's a miracle that it's still working, because it's rare for it to beat more than 2000 players online, very rare indeed! Not to mention that a few months ago they completely closed the Brazilian service's social networks (You tube, Twitter, Instagram), leaving only Discord. This was a situation that discouraged players in the community on behalf of Server SA. pelk have already abandoned them almost completely in South America, they just need to announce the closure of the SA server.

[@vankhorne]

Closing SA server is not the answer. Just imagine playing with increased latency.

[@Lucas66393]

Como assim eles fecharam as redes sociais em PT-BR? Direto eu vejo postagens em português na página do Facebook

[@evilguy4]

Conclusion: The game deserves to die.

[@GeorgiiiVaampire]

If you don't like it, leave it

[@perfectlambministry777.]

@@GeorgiiiVaampire What a sold argument 100% high IQ commenter right here

[@dzsonikrancs]

🤡​@@GeorgiiiVaampire

[@goodguygoldhand65]

Game deserves to live, WG just keeps digging the hole further. Game has good base and gameplay and all of that is ruined by things that was said in the video.

[@Zyfil]

the game deserves to live, the company doesn't deserve an alive wot though

[@difgy4712]

1:46 Haha, it is so funny because with the BZ176, Borasque and Skoda t56 in the game, Defender and Skorpion seem like completely balanced tanks. Little did we know back then that Defender was just a beginning.

[@sypher4912]

I remember when I had a 65% W/R in my Defender. That's when I realized how utterly broken it was.

[@ngoanh6635]

the promise that premium tanks are always weaker than tech-tree counter part turned out to be a joke, and a big slap to anyone who bought old-timer premium tanks which are almost useless nowadays.

[@NewBieAlmostPro]

''So it begins''

[@AetherYes]

Don't worry guys the game is not dying I will continue to nerf premium tanks no matter what

[@saladdressing2781]

@@ngoanh6635 I remember an old Circon video and someone said "The downfall of World of tanks is when we have Type 59 sales!" oh this was also like 2014

[@snowyfox_01]

Even as a War Thunder player, it really makes me sad to see how a company could give less of a shit about its players. I know Gaijin has had their fair share of issues with War Thunder, however they actually are now making at least some effort to engage with the community to fix their game. This just seems like blatant neglect and cash farming. I wanted to try WoT, and never got around to it, but what's happening now is just the nail in the coffin, and I have no interest in trying it out now.

[@Goobatron4k]

As someone who started playing wot and switched to wt you aren’t missing out on much. Wt players love to bitch about gaijins handling of the game but wargaming straight up ignores any complaints and it shows.

[@8Shadow8crystal8]

Gajin ist the same Thing its also a scumbag russian company

[@WeDo11]

2017: SirFoch Vs Wargaming 2024: Kajzoo vs Activision Blizz i mean Warzard

[@AurelionSass]

Wait, the SirFoch incident was back in 2017?? I remember it as if it had been yesterday! I feel old now :(

[@emirgueneri988]

As a former EU employee and quiet decent player who started the journey back in 2013, I could confidently say that everything has been changed somewhere around 2015. We had many employees (not just testers but product specialists, esport managers, etc.) drafted from player base back in those days and we all knew the direction of WG was extremely frustrating. The major change was done to hierarchy of WG departments. Before 2016 (or late 2015), WoT was ruled by Devs Team. Dunno why or what happened, but the executive board had couple changes and after that finance department moved up to the top. After these changes, everything was being decided by those finance guys. The introduction of OP Premium Tanks was the first impact. F.Department were trying to do their best to cut the expenses and to increase the revenue. Well, they did a excellent job in a short period of time and the board was happy. As game enthusiasts and entry or mid-level employees, we warned them. The game has the potential to be eternal and there are other ways to generate more money such as cosmetics, events, merchandise, etc. Now, in 2024 we all know where we are. I quit my job years ago, played WoT for 2 more years and I could not stand the unfair play anymore: pre.ammo spam, op. pre.tanks, etc.

[@appi1387]

If only more like you would speak out having worked inside the game

[@MozzaBurger88]

That was my feeling as well. 2015ish is when my playtime began to drastically lower. The early years were imperfect if anything but fun and going the right direction. The very best era was the "0.8.x" versions. Especially post "Great Arty Nerf" and when the dispersion sigma were tightened and made skill and weakpoint knowledge vastly more important than RNG.

[@galicyjskihabsburg6703]

After SerB quit WG starts to become garbage

[@magjohansson3201]

Economists are the devils foot soldiers of the earth…..

[@emirgueneri988]

@@appi1387 they would not mind to speak, but most of them moved on. I am still around because I still have friends actively playing the game, clanwars especially. Time to time I come back to roll out with them. Couple of months ago, I saw a video of a game development (smth like devs blog) which represented by a high level of manager. I couldn't believe my eyes when I see that he got such high level position in devs team (not everyone in devs team is a coder, neither him). He was one of the worst who has absolutely no idea about the game, no fcks given to the community.. Personality wise, you could imagine the absolute monstrosity.. I really feel the same pain as kajzoo mentioning in the video. We have invested so much, time, money, friendships, etc. Wasted.. So sad.

[@Simplemindedbogey]

Remember when WG came out with Topography mode for players to learn the maps and then never completed it for the other 27 maps?

[@user-jl1qs1on5c]

It's the same as a Latino president who offers to fight crime but he is the real crime

[@Bigbacon]

its also dumb it took a million years to even have this option and it should be so easy to implement...

[@Orinslayer]

funnilly enough the console version of the game had that feature for all maps for 5 years before it was removed.

[@GenHummel96]

I am waiting for it for so long... Thats like worth annother 3 million in credits and consumables 😅

[@michal888ful]

For me the game was ruined years ago when they introduced gold ammo for real money, I've spent a lot of time to research tier X american tank destroyer just to get killed every game easily by someone that paid to have better ammo:)

[@FSXNOOB]

69.000 battles played in WOT, but in the past few months I have completely lost interest. I've ceased investing my money in that game and am now finding enjoyment in other games. After dealing with all the WG lies, such as putting 3 tanks on 1 crew, I am finished with it. It will now take me 2-3 years to reach my 70,000 battles because i play 10 matches in a month max...

[@vanjamenadzer]

I played daily since 2011 to ~2019, with later years having few games after work and I still am at 35k battles. That amount of battles is unfathomable to me :D

[@stoicaadrian5757]

0-15 score game this is normal? And from 30 battles only 5 victories? This is normal ?fuck WG

[@soldier22881]

you have to pay more money, pay more money and you will get more winning matches.

[@vanjamenadzer]

Make pauses between playing, two or three days, hop on, play 5-10 games and make another pause. You will see increase in WR because this game, just like other MMO's have personal pattern recognition system. If you spam games after series of losses, you will continue to lose until system understands how much you can take and will give you wins. But when you quit after few losses and don't play for two days, system will award you with wins in the first few games. Play until 3 losses and stop. System will recognize you don't take more than three losses and don't play for two days, it gives you better MM and better RNG to keep you hooked.

[@soldier22881]

@@vanjamenadzer So basically its a casino

[@dmitriigriu6619]

Idk there are days were i only lose and otheres where i only win

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

@@soldier22881 A casino, exactly ! People pay to get robbed, and they somewhat get addicted.

[@tacitus6384]

"Look at all these maps!" World of Warships Players: "You guys have more than 6 maps?"

[@Cramblit]

Which is hilarious, because World of Warships maps would be so easy to make..

[@tacitus6384]

@@Cramblit You could go nuts with them, it could be so much fun. Imagine a map that takes place in a bubble bath, with enormous rubber duckies floating around and huge banks of soap foam etc. You could do so many wild and fun things.

[@Cramblit]

@@tacitus6384 Dude... that gave me Army Men video game vibes from my childhood. thank you for those memories lol.

[@soldier22881]

@@tacitus6384 the problem is you have fun and interesting ideas. WG is there to make PROFIT they never cared about quality product otherwise they would have never added artillery to tanks, never added pay to win to their free to play game.

[@Igor369]

It is hardly possible to make creative maps when vast majority of them has to be an ocean.

[@Misimpa]

Biggest issue is 0-15 and 15-0 in 2 or 3 minutes

[@tnx06]

And it feels like it was decided that this will be the result and you cannot do anything to change it.

[@EB-Coucou]

Agree

[@zomgl2pnoobffs]

Gamers want close wins or close losses. For example, MMO raid bosses are designed so that with the best gear you can *just* win. That's what gives players satisfaction. Overwhelming wins or losses used to be the exception, something remarkable. How did they screw it up so badly? Oh wait -- money.

[@Martin-wj6um]

@@tnx06 it is called rigged RnG

[@senechaux2534]

Certanly, it is the biggest problem in the game.

[@martinzavrel2562]

the biggest problem for me is playing on same maps. I would like to play on 50 different maps. They can bring to alive the old ones or create new.

[@Souvlaki500ari]

And the freaking MM .......Having an artillery or Light and it putting you in skoda factory of the freaking maps like the towns one........ And when i get a tank like Vk ( mouse style ) ,t95 and similar to putting me in the biggest map...... Hahaha

[@4is4]

The problem is that game makers think they know best, they don't listen to the players. Their business models are all the same, introduce paid content, then nurf removing any advantage. Time is also important why waste it on marginal gains and then get nurfed. Games like this could be great but will surcomb to groundbreaking and exciting titles in the future and from developers that work with their customer base not think they no better.

[@EDLINEE]

Looking at your favorite game being closer to death day by day after you played it for the last 11 years, is one of the most painful things. It feels like your best friend started taking drugs and you see him getting destroyed without being able to do something

[@BlackjackN7]

Rarely I've seen such a good description of seeing a game you've played for a long, long time slowly dying or at least starting to decay in quality and being milked more and more. It's horrible to see to be absolutely honest.

[@jeffleathrman2337]

Ya after spending over $78000.00 on the game can you now please kick me in the nuts a few times to to complete my life.

[@LtCommanderTato]

@@BlackjackN7 That is why games as a service will never be better than a proper game made for full play after release. People still play CS 1.6 , retrogame. These things cant be corrupted by greed.

[@sdghtjsdcgs]

You're comparing a dogshit arcade game to a friend dying?

[@dibingsdibingens8463]

​@@sdghtjsdcgs while being two *very* different things, considering the fact that a significant amount of people nowadays dont really have any true good friends in real life, they tend to use their favorite online-games as a kind of surrogate for a somewhat genuine human interaction (mostly subconsciously but still nontheless seen/felt as an important part of their life). Therefore, seeing your favorite online-game slowly degenerating into much-less-than-suboptimal versions of their former states can indeed feel pretty bad. Still, definitley not the same as seeing a true friend go down a bad road, but still a very unpleasant and in some cases perhaps heartbreaking experience.

[@MultiGamerClub]

bro i quit like a year or two ago.. after spending 12-13 years and like.. uhhh.. 1000€ over those years.. No wonder its dying from p2w or horrible design choices.

[@TheStormcube1]

Same thing, i left 2 years ago (and i was coming only to get rewards). I've been playing since 2012 and i left not only because of money i spent, but the game was not fun anymore (thanks i played only with my mates in platoon).

[@utorque]

same here

[@MrBalrogos]

I played since open beta, and I stopped playing long time ago I only back time to time. They kill e sport, they removed clan wars, guys from my clan went to china and Russia for turnaments

[@josearaujo8616]

p2w is never a problem in games, its much worse to give better tanks to the best players. Whales don't ruin games, the make it possible for others to play for free. Much bigger problem are good gready players who take advantage of everything to stomp newbs.

[@snapcountersteer]

@@josearaujo8616 lefh player typed this.

[@Mehmehmeeeeeeh]

my 200 +vehicles were stolen ,and WOT did not want to know ,have not played it since

[@8Shadow8crystal8]

Lol how can U manage that XD

[@markedforstrike]

Playing WT and watching videos about WoT feels like sitting in a burning house and looking in the window how neighbour one burns too

[@piotr7805]

There is literally no franchise nor product, that cannot be run into the ground by greedy, short-sighted suits with too much power.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Honestly the franchise has been bleeding to death for a long time. They should have shut it down years ago, but have instead been finding every way possible to get revenue from a dying game. This has happened to so many free to play games over the years. They get VERY popular, but once popularity starts to die down, to keep the same revenue as before, requires more aggressive monetization. It isn't reasonable to expect a company to "NOT" want the game to remain profitable or as profitable as it was the year before. Issue is knowing when it give up and let the game die. I quit World of Tanks years ago and refuse to come back. I quit even before loot boxes were introduced. The game was already changing in ways that I didn't like, nor cared for. Even the changes to Light Tank match making upset me because I was a Dedicated Scout, I liked taking my PzII Luchs into tier 7 battles and my Leopard into tier 8 battles. There was nothing more satisfying in the game than coming up behind a weak T32 American Heavy Tank with the Leopard Light Tank and unloading the full 3cm MK103 into it's rear finishing it off. Back then light tanks were the stealthiest tanks, and often had the highest view ranges of any tanks on the field as well. Over time that changed. Machmaking changes to light tanks combined with nerfs on their view range.. the introduction fast mobile TDs/Mediums that basically did the job better, with more HP, better armor, and considerably more firepower. Light Tanks were no longer fun. Their role in the game was lost. That combined with the changes to the maps that made them over more closed it, making everything point blank range slug fest, making the advantages that remained like 'stealth' for a light tank well not even a factor anymore. Basically the entire game was getting ruined long before 2014.

[@soldier22881]

the worst part its always bad games that succeed BECAUSE they use shady underhanded tactics designed to milk profit rather than create an enjoyable game. i like the idea of world of tanks but artillery and all the pay to win tanks ruin it. pure greed

[@4exgold]

true. this is the downside to capitalistic thinking where everything is commoditised. On the other hand, we should ask would the game be dying if it remained largely the same as it was in, say, 2014 (with each subsequent year adding a new map, or a new vehicle, or a new kind of consumable or new piece of equipment, or some other change like restricting arty to max 1 per game). I dont know the answer to that question but i suspect it would be no because the interest in WW2 era, arcade-type games will always be there, so therefore you'll have a steady stream of younger players joining the existing older players. Some older players might wanna try another game and take a break from WOT but then they might come back later. I dont understand why a company (ANY company) can't just be satisfied at consistently making, say, X million dollars a year in profit. Why this greedy desire to want more and more and more? I mean that is what is killing the game, surely?

[@Alte.Kameraden]

@@4exgold and if it was up to Socialist all we'd have is Tetris and only Tetris because video games are decadent and a waste of resources. Only puzzle solving games and 1mhz single core processors if even that for the public. Why do you think the game was made to begin with? 🤔 wasn't hammer and sickles.

[@4exgold]

@@Alte.Kameraden there has to be a balance is what i'm saying, Nazi boy. Of course I dont want Tetris only (good game though it is) but i also hate greedy corporations that aren't content with making a decent profit every year and instead demand more and more before finally destroying a once great product.

[@basilabeysekra7389]

a veteran here. played this game way back when the highest tier for SPGs was 8 and i recall somewhere the t30 was X, and the is4 was 9. all with the boxy looking graphics and limited variety of sounds. back then it was fun because everyone was equal, there wasnt another player in the game that had a certain tank that you could not have or an advantage over you. basically what ever that player has, you could get it with enough dedication and grind. everyone used standard ammo and standard equipment. TLDR: today's wot, bond equipment outperforms standards. op vehicles are locked behind a steep paywall, loot box exclusive, and gold ammo is required to be competitive which automatically makes premium account a must have or bleed economy. all of which a new player has to combat if they wish to learn the game, really is just too much to stomach.

[@mariorossi4050]

i quit wot definitively 3 years ago... wot was wot the first years... after became only a game to make money.

[@J3assbox]

All of the above and the "fixing" maps aspekt.

[@_saxonia2786]

I also remember this time. That was different but good! But you also have to say that you don't make any money with such a game. If there are no special things you pay for, then there is no money around. Of course, you could have left the game like that, but you would have had to pay for the game itself. But then it would definitely have died years ago. Because only new content brings money and keeps the servers going. That is sad but true.

[@kleszczoros4885]

​@@J3assbox A yes The invisible walls every where because "thoes spota are op"

[@Sira_Kackavalj]

The simple days. Around when WoT officially released. Germany, USSR, USA. Three tier 10s Maus, T30 and IS7, mediums up to tier 9 and SPGs up to tier 8.

[@skylerditton3052]

I’d been playing WoT for 9 years now, but for the past year I never want to get on. Constant new events, Meta vehicles, constant “HEY WANNA BUY THIS?!”, and just overall realization that the devs don’t care and just want money. I’ve been having a much better time on War Thunder

[@speedyturtle2102]

I grew up on WOT and played it heavily from 2012 - 2014, stopped playing for a while then dipped my toes in at 2016 before heading off forever. I came back to the game this year and all I can say is that it is not what it used to be. I was firstly shocked to see the tech tress empty, not to mention half of my tanks missing including premium tanks. This annoyed me as I had some tanks in there that I really enjoyed playing back in the day and to see all the tech tress stripped down was almost heart breaking. And also there were some tanks that I used to own but I now needed to research them again. Despite this I still gave it a go for about a week or so and overall my experience was disappointing, especially since I was coming back for the nostalgia. To start I kept getting killed by invisible tanks, this was a problem for me back in the day but my god it's even worse than before. I kitted out one of my tanks to help stop this happening, training up my crew, perks and all the other shenanigans that you can do, and I will admit that this helped which was good. However, this was all of my resources pilled into one tank meaning that if I wanted to have somewhat of a decent experience in a tank I'd have to do that over and over, which would ultimately mean me bringing out my wallet. Then there is the matchmaking. It is dreadful. I tried the British Cromwell and German Tiger tanks for multiple games. My win rate for both these tanks was less than 15%, I'm not sure how many battles it was but enough for me to stop playing them but enough to generate some data. Yeh skill issue blah blah but there is no way I would have played this game this much back in 2014 if this was the case. Personally, I will not be going back to WOT. Which is really a shame as it used to be a great game that I enjoyed when I was a kid but it's just not what it used to be. Can it be saved? Maybe. But it's going to require a huge change whether that's an overhaul on tanks performance, new maps/map changes, graphics improvement, economic changes, or matchmaking improvements. I hope WOT doesn't die as I know many people, like myself, have a lot of memories on this game but unfortunately, greed and lack of engagement to the community, not listening to feedback, and greed is what will kill the game. It's sad to watch your childhood game die....

[@lucasrock2944]

wow I didn't know that if we stop playing for a long time the game takes away your vehicles. That's bad because if someone wants to come back to give it another chance with this, they'll have all the desire to play again.

[@TANKSBROTV]

The biggest problem of the game is that the management and people who have to say something in the company are not playing the game. Is just a money-printing machine for them.

[@dibingsdibingens8463]

Well this seems to have become a major trend since probably 10-or-so years

[@jaspervanhoudt2675]

About the 4 new maps released over the last 4 years. Don't forget they also removed 2 or 3 maps when the war in Ukraine started 2 years ago

[@kajzoo]

True, Kharkov and Minsk

[@zGJungle]

I miss those maps.

[@jamieclips8129]

Minsk was always shit but the city fight in Kharkov was gold

[@ironmonkey1512]

all the 'asian' maps released since hd are pure garbage

[@l6k007]

Delete good city maps and release shitty Camper maps…

[@brycspain]

The constant losing streaks on random battles are annoying and disheartening. Losing 8 to 10 battles in a row can cause you to quit playing if it happens all the time which it does.

[@its_alexx]

You really speak right out of my soul. I play this game since 2012 with more than over 40k battles and I love it and I really want to continue playing but as you said they went in many ways sadly into the wrong direction. Especially the personal missions gave me a new challenge to play with different tanks as usual and get rewarded for it and I am looking forward since 2/3 years that wg will add a third line of missions. And I hope wg will change something in the future not only because of my interests but because that you continue making videos about this game that we love and enjoyed playing

[@maxime5449]

Thanks for mentionning the Chrysler Drama and SirFoch. Feel like it has been lost to time but it was a clear indicator of the coming fate

[@georgedevries3992]

Still remember that debacle.

[@Montaggg33]

What was is it again about the Chrysler? Did they nerf it right after releasing or what?

[@maxime5449]

@@Montaggg33 Not really if i recall correctly, but but we have to put in some context, at the time, most OP tanks weren't released, the game in 2017 wasn't the same at all, and a tank like the chrysler was absolutely horrendous at that time, it had exceptionnal armor and mobility, and the shells were useless if you were to shoot AP, so you had to shoot gold in it (the tank was annoying for you and ennemies), lower tier couldn't stand a chance, and it was clan wars only if I recall correctly, I don't know about a nerf, I don't want to say something on it because I don't know. The most interesting thing to note is the outrage this tank caused, which in nowdays, is a joke compared to all the tanks that came after this one (the armor is still reliable a bit). On other hands, the censorship SirFoch received (I mean sure he can go wild sometimes, and speak really dirty, I personnally liked his personnality) was insane, that was a dirty move from wargaming, and I just have an opinion that this happening is just lost to time, sure defender was the first big outrage, but chrysler was something too, since it showed that, when, you say true things, wargaming will take action and still doesn't listen/care. So yeah I really liked Kajzoo covering this incident, wise people will quote defender for topics like that, wiser people like Kajzoo will also point out the chrysler drama, I really like his expertise on this game. About 7 years before, we already had symptoms of wargaming true face

[@soldier22881]

i disagree, the clear indicator of fate was when type 59 and super pershing where released. 2 very overpowered medium tanks that go fast and have armor of a heavy. type 59 super fast mobility decent gd and has a tier 10 turret armor. that is when game went full pay to win and the HE nerf to make people buy gold rounds

[@4exgold]

does SirFoch still play? I got kinda bored with his constant ranting & negativity so stopped watching his streams. He's right though to call out WG on a lot of their moronic changes to the game. Thinking about a vehicle like the Type 59 and SuperPershing now lol, no one would think they're OP compared to ridiculous vehicles like the BZ-176. The power creep is getting to absurd levels. I wouldnt be surprised if WG in a couple years introduced a vehicle that drives 60km/h, has near impenetrable sloped armour, a 160mm gun AND also FIRES rockets that do 1000 dmg wherever they hit. It'd be their swansong vehicle before shutting down WOT permanently 🤬

[@ouzokiller1]

The only thing that is keeping WoT alive is the community. I've stopped playing a couple years ago but i still occasionally watch some youtubers. WoT was the must fun for the first couple years before greed took over...

[@atanubasu1319]

So true.

[@skk3c776]

Thanks for your video. I have been playing on the Chinese server for over 12 years. Recently, I haven't logged into World of Tanks for a month. Poor map design and unreasonable tank balance have made each game tedious. I'm well aware that to maintain a good win rate, I have to use OP tanks like the BZ and Bourrasque at tier 8. The new maps and changes to old maps have left no room for light and medium tanks to survive. I am a professional LT player in clan wars, but I no longer use LT in random battles. However, even using the most powerful heavy tanks, it is impossible to launch an attack on certain maps.

[@user-ii9hm7jh6w]

Thank you for your effort Kajzoo We are all feeling sorry for what’s happening to our beloved game. I used to spend some money in it, convincing myself that I pay my money for some fun. But now since no fun is there I left everything in it and moved on myself. The main reasons why I left were changing the prices significantly since I was paying in turkish lira, now its in USD and everything is three times more expensive. I think they could take my little money, but now I won’t pay a penny. The other reason is like since I play less now I’m less skilled than other players , and recently I play only to get farmed. I don’t know is it really I’m less skilled or because I stopped paying and my prem account has finished? The last nail in WOT coffin is loot boxes… I think no words needed Thank you Kajzoo, I really would live the game to become playable again and have more fun but unfortunately I can’t see how WG will do it Edit: one more reason is the pay to win players doing all that gold spam in their OP tanks against my 2 levels lower tier tank, like you Kajzoo😜

[@slawomirozdoba4605]

You forgot to mention the recent "improvements" in the way clan resources are gathered, which resulted in clans getting poorer. There is less clan reserves running, meaning people have less silver. Probably a new tactic to completely destroy casual clans, and milk some more money from players that are low on silver...

[@redna_menimoh]

100%, now I don't even see a reason to have clan

[@vanjamenadzer]

@@redna_menimoh Back in the days, without all of this BS, clan wars were funest mode ever.

[@Karthunk]

We asked for: more maps, less spgs or just the outright removal, and less rng. In response we were told if we don't like how the game is we should just quit. So we quit. Not sure what else to say on this topic.

[@soldier22881]

agreed, artillery should have been removed day 1, worst class and decisions to ever add to a game.

[@dukesworldoftanks]

KAJZOO completely NAILED it! Well done.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Only way the game can be saved is literally reverting it back to like 2014 or something like that. Maybe even earlier.

[@panzerabteilung]

yeah, i stopped playing like 11 years ago, when i noticed back them all the problems people is complaining here, i dunno how it took 10 years to the rest of the people to be aware of those things that take me only 1 year. Yes, the 2013 version could be the best one

[@jamieclips8129]

Biggest problem for me is the corridor maps, gameplay is literally just point and shoot nowadays waiting for the enemy to try and break the camp. Not fun at all

[@soldier22881]

and dont forget artillery which has been ruining the game for YEARS, creating camp fests where no one will push because you will get perma tracked where both teams have to carry the campers playing artillery to victory. a class literally designed to ruin other peoples fun.

[@vanjamenadzer]

@@soldier22881 I don't even care about de tracking or damage from arty, but when a round misses you and deals no damage, but renders you useless for 14 seconds it's disgusting. Stun mechanic needs to go.

[@soldier22881]

@@vanjamenadzer agreed but it would be better to remove artillery in general, it promotes camping i mean the class is designed around camping more than tank destroyers. Artillery ignores almost all of the game mechanics and the most toxic people play artillery they actually enjoy ruining peoples fun and see them complain on forums, they are THAT toxic. removing that class and banning those players will be the biggest karma ever

[@Zoltan1251]

@@soldier22881 What? Artillery is the only thing that makes campers move. Everybody gets to positions and waits. Is that fun? In old WOT i was able to make some yolo plays and it worked out a lot. Now its impossible because there is corridor and everyone is aiming at it. If your teams have more people trying to attack, you lose.

[@soldier22881]

@@Zoltan1251 You know what artillery players do right? CAMP, flawless logic to "counter" camping we need a dedicated overpowered class that camps.

[@RDrumcajsek]

For me personally what pissed me the most was a shadownerf of tank economy, making playing without premium account and premium t8 tanks almost impossible.

[@madogthefirst]

I for one would like to see some of that dar proof. Maybe it did happen I haven't been paying that close attention. My first assumption is you're talking out your ass, I would like to be wrong.

[@kobraz5684]

@@madogthefirst True, but as a player too i agree with him. I came back and played here a month ago, got in my skorp, did 1000 damage and won the game, ended with +50,000 silver. Went to my udes, the medium swede. Won with 2350 damage, ended with +2500 silver. Its insane how much more premium vehicles make compared to non premiums.

[@TheeWolfiee1]

I’ll never forget the fear of being a new tier 7 user and encountering a Skorpion G for the first time and losing over half of my HP in one hit… fun times, and an everlasting fear of that tank.

[@naiad001]

They also promised the night mode in 2023, were now in June and no sign of it.

[@PKpanzerkrieger]

WarThunder is better

[@nutman1705]

Its so sad how a game with no competition manages to die due to corporate greed and poor managment. I could've easily lived for 10 more years and made them obscene money if they just werent such greedy corner-cutting pieces of sh...

[@Apedrape]

don'y forget dishonest. WG lies like a cheap rug.

[@snarkymoosesshack8793]

>no competition Can you really say that when the only competition is either a carbon copy(Armored Warfare) or something that is somehow vastly worse(War Thunder) and an even bigger grift?

[@Jeff-gu6nb]

It's not dying 😂. It's another click bait video

[@nutman1705]

@@Jeff-gu6nb ok WG employee

[@Jeff-gu6nb]

@@nutman1705 he didn't even take into account that ru isn't part of the numbers now. He used one doc that misrepresented everything

[@Leicester_Square]

Love the music of the last chapter xD "50.000 people used to live here, now it is a ghost town"

[@theelektrickzz661]

i noticed it too, gj kajzoo 🤝

[@PsychoKern]

Remember Tank Rewards? Where you could get pretty nice T6 tanks? I think there was a T7 few times! For a little bit of a grind every day for few weeks you got you much...FOR FREE.....I miss coming home from highschool and loading up WoT to do daily challenges and stuff for the Tank Rewards....God times. I think it's time to put the nail in the coffin that is World Of Tanks....It had a really good run but greedy WarGaming ruined it....

[@Karten512]

there is nothing to add from my point of view you said exactly what i think of this game now

[@svenmilicic6802]

Rng while aiming is the biggest downside for me 90% of my fully aimed shits just end up in a ground or completely miss the tank Even when i try to aim in the middle of a tank from its side it will somehow either miss or hit so low that it will only track the tank i was shioting

[@georgedevries3992]

Just aiming? Lol. My good sir, you forgot rng team matchups, rng penetration due to rng aiming, rng damage numbers and ofc rng crits.

[@zdogadnytsya]

Dont forget the tracks completely eating the damage of the shell while not even breaking and ricochettes off of almost 90 degree surfaces

[@soddy5964]

@svenmilicic6802 Just go play War thunder. No aim RNG there

[@karlpeterson9334]

Love that random math; screws you every time.

[@soddy5964]

@@karlpeterson9334 Well, yea, thats true. But I think, if War Thuder will change something important in next 3 mounts, WT has future.

[@metalmarc9542]

Biggest problem for me is the MM. the 4 min games that end in 3-15 or 15-3, I’m sick of it but still love the game. I’ve been playing WOT since 2013

[@lazycrate71]

same. hate the mm but im more active than i ever was at the moment

[@machariel]

Turbo battles, in which vehicles are slower than 40 kilometers per hour, are not relevant

[@soldier22881]

thats because match maker is designed to place paying players in money tanks with skilled players up against free to play players

[@megapet777]

def should try war thunder. it has much slower battles

[@erichhonecker8548]

Kajzoo, you really hit a home run with this great video!

[@Terraqueo22]

I dont understand why they release premium tanks that already exists... Defender,guard, Miel, Skorpion G, Mars... Dude like why? Why not release 3D skin? Step 1 to better WoT- Remove Arty and any arty related stuff (add it as consumable for getting 6 kills on a match or something like a killstreak in CoD) Step 2- Stop selling same premiums and work on the premiums we have that is a lot Step 3- Reintroduce weak spots on tanks and for the love of God nerf roof and Underside armor Step 4- Revamp tech tree tanks Step 5- The old Historical related Battle passes were nice gee quit with the TMNT, warhammer stuff. Add it as stickers or decoration or something. Step 6 Give the free players a chance to enjoy your game without spending cash Step 7 - Maps... We need more. The dynamic battle schtick was pretty cool NGL it certainly open ways to end stalemates and opens new opportunities and changes gameplans but they dont do jackshit if your team is already 45 percent dead.

[@sypher4912]

Autoloaders, wheelies, broken premium tanks, artillery rework. All culminated to make me quit.

[@lucanicolasstefan4788]

Autoloaders? The autoloaders are the problem?

[@K1ng_Rat]

@@lucanicolasstefan4788 arty is the problem, an that rng system.

[@BeamNG.drive-cinematics]

arty rework? LMAO its more balanced than before bruh

[@snapcountersteer]

@@BeamNG.drive-cinematics still cancer

[@ViniciusGabriel-xg7li]

Arty faz parte da guerra, elas não sao o problema .​@@K1ng_Rat

[@Mobus_]

I started playing the game because I'm a fan of military history. I don't mind the WH40K designs but futuristic and cartoon are a bit much.

[@durachoks]

you can turn off this feature, you wont see single bullshit 3d style anymore, if that whats bothering you

[@Manaphy0882]

Why tho? Warhammer tanks are probably the most weird designs (turtles are just skins)

[@thomasfeiller2207]

I think map design is one of the biggest issues. Like Kaj said, it always goes to funnel points... a couple of maps avoid that to some degree but, the algorithm of the games tends to be repetitive.

[@maciekpodlaski9102]

Absolutely, fenomenal material. Thank you! For me the worst thing is bad MM. MM should be +/-1. The gap between +/- 2 tier MM is way to big.

[@andreassonne8004]

The biggest problem by far is the MM system! Last weekend, I played 33 matches and lost 24, the majority of those 24 being decided in the first 2-3 minutes. It's really fked up to have one team with 6-7 players with over 55% winrate and the other team with 11-12 players with under 48% winrate. Or to have, for example, a team with 2-3 BZ-176 and 2-3 Skoda T 56 as top tier, while the opposing team has Emil 1, AMX 50 100, AMX 65t and other crap tanks...

[@SytechPL]

I have the same problem, only lost matches, fuck this game and WG

[@Tazudoki]

This is why I always thought the MM was rigged. You would have 1 good day and after that 5 terrible days. It always felt like I was being punished. And the more I played and better I became the more I felt punished, even if I did 4-5-6k damage you would still loose and get nothing for it.

[@attila1312]

I played this game since 2012 all this years ONE thing was constant complain on MM. In this case MM its just a cherry on top of the cake , major issue is even possible tó finish match within 3 min. Reasons: map design, tanks speed, too high firepower. Just compare this version with older version like 0.90. IT Will be a different game without turbo battles and same sh.t MM.

[@SytechPL]

@@Tazudoki yes it is truth, because this game is now pay to win and WG fuck the players

[@soldier22881]

do you want to know why match maker is like this? its because it purposefully puts paying players with high skilled player on one team usually in over powered premium tanks up against free to play players with tech tree tanks and low skilled players.

[@Manetty6]

fucking up big progetto is amongst the most idotic moves they have. make an event, and then realize "wow too many players, too sucessful, NERF it", but in the real world nobody complaiend about it.

[@Takedown87]

RU servers cry about it. Thats why he got nerfed

[@asrthgfhfg6124]

268 ver4 did it for me...

[@durachoks]

A lot of nerds are done just to change the meta, and if tank gets too popular, having 6 progettos every battle is also not good

[@atanubasu1319]

It was obvious that WG nerfed the Prog 65, to sell the Lion.

[@AetherYes]

Since wargaming nerf tech tree tanks I took upon myself to nerf premium tanks by myself

[@taihoutango2315]

Ive been playing world of tanks since 2012, and still play to this day (albeit not often, probably like a couple games a week or so) and I totally agree with all your points. This is the shit ive been trying to say the past couple years; especially regarding the reskinned premiums and the absolute spam of TDs in the matchmaker. The evidence of them cashing out and not really caring about the future is clear in how they still continue to release broken tier 8s that destroy the matchmaker. If you load up a tier 8 right now 70-85% of every team will be premiums. They need to do something about that because like you said, a new player taking out their first tier 8 and fighting 3 defenders and 5 skoripon Gs ever single game will make them quit. Im not a new player and that shit made me quit. Tech tree tanks are overshadowed way too much in this new WoT.

[@jacky9590]

When they shut down forums and make shit like discord and reddit the hub, its over for the game.

[@EudamoniaTrout]

I started playing WoT in 2011 on the NA server. Took a break of 2 years in 2015 and then came back and played until 2020. For all it's in inequities I loved playing the game, but ultimately, the lack of improvements that should have been done never happened and the greed of the corporation made it clearer over time that they had no interest in what the players wanted. All we ever got was lip service and increased price gouging.

[@lencow2314]

I swear to everything i own, if they put loot box for the 80th birthday of the DDAY I will scream and uninstal

[@kajzoo]

🎁

[@albazar]

so will I

[@BaJIbKupu9I]

Call of Duty WW2 D-Day Omaha beach and lootboxes with guns and skins on the background of destroyed tanks and troops after landing. Hope WG can beat EA in this 😂

[@Qarantinova]

Omg Kajzoo. I just love You for give me heroes 3 music in background❤❤❤

[@josipmrkonic2175]

Homm3 battle theme in the background. So neat Kajzoo

[@2099alexandre]

Many friends and I gave up because of this. But what's worse, there are moments when the game gets so involved in deciding where the shot will hit that it becomes disturbing... This ends up influencing the outcome of the match. I had moments of aiming in the middle and the shot going over way beyond giving a 100% error. Good ping and FPS. I sent a replay and got a ticket and said: It's not possible to play like that. Every 10 shots 8 go wrong, they respond: "We are sorry to inform you that some aspects of the game do not meet your expectations." So much so that there are videos out there of proplayers being angry about this. We already have our mistakes due to our decisions, we don't need the game deciding for us. Let's invest our time and money in another game.

[@soldier22881]

this the game is pay to win for a long time. match maker takes paying players places them with skilled players to farm low skill players and players that dont pay money. game is a scam

[@StefanM-YT]

Death of the world of tanks started with bz 176. A tier 10 heavy tank fighting against tier 6-7-8.

[@nates205]

on the contrary, the death started with the chrysler gf.

[@szymonkania3068]

@@nates205 Biggest drop we can see after Defender and skorpion, i remember how mad players were back then

[@Andras889]

I left when they added the IS-3A

[@nates205]

@@szymonkania3068 thats when i officially stopped playing

[@appi1387]

Your statement is a problem foe me as ive never had a -2 MM in my BZ. I never get -2 MM in any tank. +2 all the time, but i never get to seal club anything

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

Personally, I wish they provided more information on maps and how to play tanks. I want to play properly, but I don't have time to look into map strategies before the match starts.

[@contractslivid5118]

I left when tank weak points got removed. Now you can see a view port, but it has the same armour as the steel plate next to it.

[@kaloyanivanov6013]

I've been around for about 13 years, just casually playing with about 51% winrate. I've spent a bit on the game - I got about 15 premiums, and most are still decent. The worst thing is that without premium consumable and 30% gold shells, the game is unplayable. Even on fully kited bounty equipment premium tanks, you are losing credits for just playing the game without credits consumable and premium account. It's too much for casual players, not to mention tier 10. Last time i logged, i lost 1 million credits in a single day playing t10 while being top 3 in every game with about 60% wins. I love the game, but i can't be bothered playing it regularly.

[@heffe_]

I was involved (for many years) in World of Tanks e-sport when it was still a thing. We were responsible for running all the leagues, Pro League included (or whatever it was called, can't remember), where all the best players were competing. I vaguely remember Kajzoo playing in GoHard. Since it never had much interest in the general public compared to other games, I made a document for Wargaming employees presenting steps/improvements that could change that, at least in my opinion. They claimed that they have everything planned out and while they appreciate my feedback, they know best what to do. Guess what. No more than a year later the WoT e-sport was shut down altogether. This video gives me flashbacks. Whatever their answer to this (if any) might be, nothing will change

[@eliasnava4851]

I stopped playing 2 years ago and I’ve spent $1000s of dollars over the years. They got greedy and it’s unplayable.

[@akivaabraham7739]

I was a top player with a 63% win percentage, and was planning to come back after a long hiatus. I had a tier 10 tank that I earned from hours of a mission, to which I had yet to claim, but when I came back, they said that they took out the tank and was not able to claim it. I put in a service request to see if I could get it, as I had earned it, but they told me to go fly a kite. So I never played again. Probably for the best that they did that, but that's what you get when you are stingey.

[@BobcatxD69]

Masterfully made, glad the video is short and to the point aswell. good job kebab

[@sohailu8058]

october 31, 2012. That when I made my wot account, after all these years, I too, feel that world of tanks is dying. I cant even keep up anymore with dogshit event after dogshit event. With so few maps, i feel like I have experienced all possible scenarios on all maps, no new experience, no new excitement. - Small maps - Fast tanks + they see everything - You join a game -> go to the same position you always go... - No new positions on maps (no ability to climb & explore) - Too many monatization - Too few tank balances - Always encoutering the same tanks - Tanks that can oneshot you - Tanks that are unpenable without gold - No communication with community - too many 3 MINUTE GAMES - Too many 0-15 games - Too many overpowered prem tanks - ... I can go on, I think its the comunity time to move on from this game and never look back...

[@BeamNG.drive-cinematics]

nah you shouldnt look at this like that. I aggree with you that WG tries to make as much money as they can. But its not to late, WG also made some nice changes as an example rebalance of vehicles... The arty changes werent bad too, you dont see often 3 artys per side, its most of the time 1 or 2 which is okay. The matchmaking is f

[@soldier22881]

i quit the game too, pay to win game overpowered real money tanks. they made the match maker purposfully place paying players in money tanks with skilled players up against free to play players.

[@ISchots]

The current map design is way too heavy tank centric.

[@erikeggenbakstad]

1. Matchmaking. 2. Tier balancing. 3. Make an algorithm for actually helping out an overwhelmed team player, with considerable amount of Xp if that particular battle/ round is won. 4. I have played since 2012, after the big, new update this game is not that exciting anymore. But, I have started playing again now. Why? because the game is still somewhat fun to play. 5. When clans stop playing and with terrible matchmaking for new players, it will be a dead game for sure. And if a new competitor in a tank games come out that actually listen to their clients, wargaming will have a big issue at their hand.

[@_E_X_E]

Prior to the 1.0 update, most of the old WoT maps were able to push one line away, support the other line directly, and secure victory. In fact, as soon as one line was pushed, the defense of the other line was also affected quickly. Even if you were good at it, if the other line was breached, you would be attacked on the side and cause stress, while the more aggressive you played, the more you would be rewarded. As a result, aggressive play was able to generate a lot of "dog fighting" in order to secure and take advantage of each other first, which allowed us to have fun while hitting and fighting each other regardless of whether the winning or losing team won or not. But now? This is a rare occurrence of this pattern, and most of the two teams simply wait for someone to come in, and the majority of them simply cannot have any fun. At the time of the 1.0 update, when it was only focused on sniping due to the TD meta, it was concluded within Wargaming that the problem was the TDs, so it was popular to nerf the TDs recklessly. In order to prevent the TDs from checking multiple lines simultaneously from the rear, measures are taken to reduce the flexibility between the lines in the map design. In fact, the initial maps were overlapped with small branches of the battlefield, and the position of the tank destroyer was also able to check multiple lines in one place, but it can be seen that some of the larger maps that appeared later divide the battlefield and have a separate tank destroyer position for each line, or no point at all that can be supported from the rear. Contrary to what was intended, however, this reduction in flexibility resulted in the elimination of the line's bypass path. Additionally, it became impossible to quickly link and break down another line as the design of the difficult section, which narrowed the distance of engagement to prevent the TDs' sniping, created a bottleneck for heavy tanks. Therefore, most of the maps added after the 1.0 update are difficult for TDs to play, but in the end, teams that play aggressively from the heavies or mediums standpoint are high-risk. Aggressive play is so profitable that most players only play defensive if they are not quite skilled, and heavy tanks have added a large number of thick turret gloves that are advantageous for defensive play to deepen the phenomenon. This problem is due to the misconception that the cause of passive play in a time when wargaming was TD+SPG friendly was due to a strong specific disease, such as "TD+SPG". The fundamental game design problem was what made "passive players" benefit, so even if the TD was weakened, passive players would eventually repeat the same thing on a heavies or mediums. Passive TD players who were waiting for their opponents to be spotted first became passive heavy, or medium players waiting for their opponents to come out of the closet first, and as the line became more flexible, offensive play became more difficult to play.

[@oleb.7146]

I started WoT right after the Beta. It was great fun, no physics, premium ammo was costing gold and my is-3 has really great armor...quit in 2013, I returned a few weeks ago and I'm gonna quit again very soon...the MM is awful, everyone spamming premium ammo, it's pay to win, the battles are boring and a lot of players are very impolite....that's not fun anymore...

[@samcheng6488]

Yes, you are absolutely right. Those passive players... campers always camp, regardless of team composition or their own role. To this day, most players still only think it's the fault of specific vehicle types, including this KZbinr. Most maps have been reduced to either kill zones or non-kill zones. You're either running naked across open fields where anyone can kill you, or you're surrounded by cover where no one can intervene except those already inside. In each update, WG keeps blaming the issues on TDs and SPGs, which is fundamentally a wrong decision. Imposing limits on the number of certain vehicle types is an absurd decision among these changes. The problem has never been the team composition of 8 LTs and 7 SPGs. Rather, it's the map design that blocks the possibility of such gameplay. Now, all battles are dominated by the heavies with the hardest turrets, stuck in place, moving back and forth, waiting for someone's bad luck to get hit on a pixel-sized weak spot, leading to a snowball effect resulting in a 15:0 or 0:15 outcome.

[@eveajah21]

i play in asian server previously on the na server before splitting, have hundred friends, created 3 clans, and dominate global maps, playing until morning together, grinding together every day we had a gathering together, became fb friends, and they had an average of 20k+ battles in this game, and 2 months ago I tried to install this game again hoping for nostalgia, and it turned out none of my friends were playing anymore, I was happy at the same time sad, happy they can move on, and sad because it used to be a beautiful memory

[@ryandombrowski9004]

The craziest part is how they've been letting their social media people engage with unhappy fans to make sure that they stop playing. haha.

[@EB-bm5vy]

The new Crew (the new crew abilities where you have to pay when transferring to another tank made me stop the game.)

[@Bobbancs_]

Imagine a world where wargaming would listen to the community... Would be.. Perfect.

[@emberfluff]

Honestly I will be incredibly disappointed if the game does end up shutting down, the amount of time and money I have committed is by far the most of any other game I have and do play. This is probably the only game I can play anytime without not having at least a little fun. Otherwise for other games I play them in like, periods of interest. Is there any saving it? Idk at this point, bolster the free to play aspect, advertise the game a lot more, offer incentives for signing up(better incentives such as rewards for battles played for ex. 5k gold for 2500 battles played etc) Stop with so many lootboxes, **Listen to the playerbase**, stop making these goofy unrealistic and unliked changes.

[@Bohdisattva326]

Bro world of warplanes still exists. Think about that for a second. Wot isn’t shutting down anytime soon 😂

[@patrikjankovics2113]

@@Bohdisattva326 As long as it's generating profit it wont be shut down.. As simple as that.

[@gyorgyr.6554]

@@Bohdisattva326 yeah, but wot is going in the NA direction.... Players will leave, and at this rate, the very next year, match amking will be around 3-4 minutes long, with you palying againts the same 10 people....

[@jackee-is-silent2938]

@@patrikjankovics2113 At some point there won't be enough profit for Wargaming to keep WoT. They are making the replacement games for WoT now. At some point, Wargaming will switch focus to them and WoT will get nothing but more monitization. When the profit isn't enough, Wargaming will shut it down.

[@bandzaybandzay]

do you remeber games when your heart start racing , brains starts thinking what you need to do to win. Im talking about 1-2 or 2-3 situations . Then your play decide game end. Now its 15-3 15-5 games quited long time ago non existing tanks, wheeled scouts and etc.

[@brizbizel]

I couldn't agree with you more BUT you forgot the unbalanced MM regarding players skill - the algorithm is broken! Many times it is precisely because of this reason that battles last 3 minutes, and, for me, it is the most frustrating experience. Content providers could have helped during the last few years by making a stand but most of them rely on the game for their income. I wouldn't be surprised that eventually they will end the game.

[@Jack05091951]

They need to bring back Historic Tank Gameplay, revise maps for a more tactical approach (less Corridors) and more larger map open field play. Eliminate sighting tank outlines, disable incoming shot directions (go back to what it used to be). Eliminate immediate spotting mechanics by increasing radio communications times for tanks that are spotted. Premium tanks ugh............. big problem. Too much to say. Greed got them in this predicament and I don't think they can solve all these issues without coming out with a completely new game.

[@brealistic3542]

You have some excellent ideas here.

[@jamieclips8129]

They’re about 4 years too late to save the game now

[@EB-Coucou]

Main WoT problem for me? Unbalanced teams, primarily in terms of players skills, secondarily in terms of tanks. That usually generates 15-3 or 3-15 5 mn battles, uninteresting wether you win or you loose. Among the 30 players/tanks retained for a game by the MM, it wouldn't be huge software developments to distribute players and tanks in both teams in order to approximately balance them...

[@shadowzone2588]

Yeah. Getting 3 grill 15 on your team vs them getting double E3 on a corridor map. That shouldn't happen as now it puts your heavies at a disadvantage as the enemy gets two extra heavies

[@soldier22881]

that's because the specifically designed their match maker to not be fair, its not random, it deliberately puts paying players together with skilled players up against free to play players. the more money you pay the better the match making you get.

[@rigux7739]

but it would be unfair. You've learned well how to play? so now you have hard battles while total idiots can farm other tomatoes! you have to grind your tanks as long as total idiots because f-ck you!

[@GilbertdeClare0704]

That is exactly what p*sses me off most. I have played WOT right from the start and have seen this get worse, where you can see in those first few minutes which way the algorithm is taking the game. Four perfectly aimed shots in a row that go wide, and now I just give up as there IS no point in even trying.

[@soldier22881]

@@GilbertdeClare0704 this so much this

[@adriantaner7950]

moving the forums to discord is a definite step towards maintenance, its way cheaper and the ease of shutdown for discord is much easier, like just deleting the server.

[@alitajalli313]

The most important problem is the cost, everything in this game is very expensive

[@AllTheGoodNamesGoneReally]

Playing on and off for 14 years. Was called dead quite some times. What I don't get is: Playerbase wants more maps, more maps and yes, you guessed right, more maps. What do we get? Reskinned premiums, broken premiums and of course nerfs to tech tree tanks that were perfect for years.

[@dobridjordje]

And we have been screaming for lower RNG since 2016 when they did that stupid RNG rework and yet they don't give two fucks about it.

[@mariankitka]

I started playing WoT in 2015 and quit in 2022, after that I moved on to War Thunder. I was a decent player, playing ranked, playing with premium account at all times and I purchased multiple premium vehicles. My problems with the game were: - poor game balancing. Many online games release patches every few weeks, fixing everything on a pretty quick basis. It's a pity there was no such model for WoT, with many tanks (especially old) staying underpowered due to the power creep seeing little to no changes. Also Wargaming's policy of not nerfing premium tanks is also a shot in the foot. - power creep. It felt that overtime more and more tanks were obsolete. I quit before the release of Bz-176, but I can't tell how the fuck something like this can make it to live servers, judging by watching people play it. Premiums were just one-upping each other to the point of madness, at increasing speed. - map balance. Players surely love 3 corridor maps! Hull down positions are cancer unfun and the increasing amount of hull-down tanks being added to fuel the hull-down meta was also cancer. Playing ranked around the time Kranvagn was buffed was a painful experience. - artillery. - EBR. Because the side wheel eating a Grille-15 round was infuriating. Don't get me wrong on this point, I think wheeled tanks actually added something new and refreshing to the game, the bullshit armour was the problem. - matchmaking. Because there is no mmr, the games are stomps. 15-2, 15-3, and so on. - speaking of matchmaking, +2 matchmaking should have been removed. Nobody likes being irrelevant when bottom tier. The "but it decreases queue times" argument is just bullshit. Who would rather get in a game nominally faster at the cost of playing against much stronger tanks? - gold ammo: I'd agree with it if it were to deal less damage in return for the higher pen. It was especially infuriating to play against, as I wasn't shooting premium at all (except for ranked, but then I asked myself: Is it really worth to win 1 game and end up bleeding over 100k credits?) Lastly, this isn't the game's flaw, but overtime I grew bored and more frustrated with how the gameplay was designed. Tanks having health pools just stopped working for me and I saw the game differently. How spotting worked also started to become stupid to me. There's not a single change they can implement that would make me come back. I grew out of the game and it has too many core problems for me to get back into.

[@AgedSwissCheese]

gold shells being a requirement, and then making you bleed creds like crazy only punishes the newer players who don't have some crazy number like 10m+ creds to dump on gold ammo

[@Waveif]

Well said

[@madogthefirst]

+/- 2 should stay. I do enjoy the challenge, reward, variety, and being bottom tier is the only thing keeping bullshit like defender and bz in check plus drags some of them away.

[@interpl6089]

Too bad Warthunder is also becoming really shit and the same as WoT with copy-paste premium vehicles and OP premiums.

[@tommyvercettygt]

Now we only are waiting to see the Snoopy and the Hello Kitty DLC and we're done

[@riki2657]

1. MM 2. no real punishment for bots 3. devs greed

[@jacobsekela8691]

WoT Console has been in a downward trend for the last 5-6 years now, and it took an absolute nosedive after its devastating Update 6.0 at the end of 2020 and the addition of Cold War. These days, the game no longer has the official forums, 80% of our content creators have quit making content or have stopped playing entirely over the last 4 years, and the game has lost pretty much the entirety of its solid core of experienced players, leading to gameplay becoming an absolute nightmare. I’ve been playing Console for almost 9 and a half years and how it’s still alive today simply boggles my mind.

[@vighito-1873]

man remember the mode where you could have your own tanks and play like a strategy game? that was awesome

[@blakemccruden9228]

ewwwwww, do you realize how much worse the grind is on console? like later tiers the amount of exp you have to get compared to pc is actually criminal, the moment i realized just how bad it was i instantly stopped playing.

[@jantoman2914]

im a pretty new player, not too good (53% wr) but the main thing i hate is the triangle designed maps, that are basically you push you lose. Thanks for your content, you really helped me to improve.

[@jantoman2914]

and i think tier 9-10 are well balanced tbh, most tanks excel at smth specific, but tier 8 is stupid, when i neex to grind fro credits i have extremely hard time even tho i have the better prems (somua sm and e75ts), when im competing against bourrasque and skoda 56 in every match

[@LanceEdmunds]

Yeah when my heavy tank bounces off a light tank something is just plain wrong.

[@dukesworldoftanks]

Kajzoo's ENGLISH is simply phenomenal & his accent sounds absolutely FANTASTIC. I really enjoy listening to you, sir. Thank you.

[@christerpedersen8920]

Spot on video, thanks! I've been playing since 2011 and for me the biggest issue is the matchmaker/balancing. These days the steamroll wins and losses are too frequent. I don't mind losing as long as I feel I have a fighting chance, but those matches are few and far between. I really like the game but I'm worried it will die sooner than later...

[@natonacl4187]

How to fix the game? Increase penetration of weak tanks, give weakspots to armored tanks, and open up all the maps so we can actually drive around and shoot stuff.

[@binhduc1182]

R E M O V E A R T Y

[@alexissolaris]

There's so much wrong with the game. My number one issue is Artillery though.

[@tlip3480]

I remember the beta and this game was great for a long time but everything comes to an end.

[@micahcollins3631]

From the NA server here. Personally I can't wait to be rolled into the EU servers. I'll gladly trade some latency for a better game play experience.

[@ZeroNitroMan]

Don't expect too much. 🥴

[@torgmeister]

east coast I presume? From the west coast I'll never play on EU (Already have 80ms to NA)

[@robinkhn2547]

For the love of god, please no. I don't need the mm be destroyed even more and the game becoming even more unpredictable, where I lose battles now because I have a bunch of US players with like 300 ping on my team while the enemy team has EU players only.

[@Dachu_]

Thank you Kajzoo, someone saying it loudly and with sense. The game may not die now or next year, but it is slowly heading in that direction and it will only get worse. I recently stopped playing after many years and I won't go back until I see changes for the better (which I doubt). The game deserves its end, They will milk the players as much money as they can before it collapses.

[@kingderpington6082]

Honestly I want to go back to when they had just changed the monetization of shells, when high pen shells were changed from costing gold to silver. Even though you had way fewer features of the minimap, and the matchmaker wasnt the best, it was at least a good game that didnt feel unplayable against a bunch of op premiums.